…revealed that Toy Story 2 co-director Lee Unkrich is helming Toy Story 3, using a screenplay from Michael Arndt, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine. Tom Hanks and Tim…

Five major groups will be handing awards out tonight – the British Academy of Film and Television Arts giving their equivalent of the Oscar, the Grammy Awards for music, the…

Completing a trilogy of interviews with some of this year’s Best Animated Short Oscar nominees, including winner Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) and Chris Renaud (No Time for Nuts), Animated…

Bill Plympton’s independent animated feature film Hair High is ending its Oscar-qualifying run today, Thursday, April 19 at Laemmle’s Sunset in West Hollywood so L.A. residents have only one day…

For the third consecutive week, Happy Feet remained at the top of the DVD sales chart, notes Nielsen VideoScan First Alert via The Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar-winning animated flick was…

Superhero Hype! indicates that Industrial Light & Magic has been named as the principle visual effects house for Iron Man. Visual Effects Supervisor Ben Snow and Oscar-winning Animation Supervisor Hal…

Starz presents the latest entry in the 30-Second Bunnies Theatre from Angry Alien Productions. This time around, the series takes aim at the Oscar-winning 2005 documentary March of the Penguins….

…two of the films: Neanderthals and an untitled feature from the Oscar-nominated Jerome Chen, who served as the visual effects supervisor on The Polar Express and Beowulf. As for the…

…how master chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller brought his real life expertise to the table. • Lifted – In Pixar’s latest short, Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Short Film, a teen…

…candid interviews, and visually stunning art and animation, Oscar ® nominated director Leslie Iwerks takes us inside the unique world of Pixar… “ a celebration of animation in all its…

According to Obsessed With Film, Oscar-winner Barrie M. Osborne (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix) is teaming with Doug Mitchell to produce the upcoming Justice League movie for…

…Feature. Since its inception, the winner of the most coveted and high profile Best Animated Feature Annie has gone on to claim the Oscar for animation every year, except in…

…status. The original cast includes a pair of Winnie the Pooh stars: voice of Pooh himself, Sterling Holloway as python Kaa, and Sebastian Cabot speaking for Bagheera the panther. Oscar…

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Nick Park’s Oscar-winning claymation duo Wallace and Gromit are headed back for more adventures, though this time returning to the small screen where they…

…and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” From Cookie Monster’s addiction to Oscar the Grouch’s depression, the article takes a look at why some people are saying…

Opening in 3,632 theaters today is Walt Disney Pictures’ Enchanted. Featuring traditional animation and live-action, as well as new songs from the Oscar-winning duo of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz,…

…Ratatouille, the Disney/Pixar hit dropped to 4th place in its third week. Interestingly, Black Friday discounts saw Happy Feet jump back into the top ten, with the Oscar-winning penguin pic…

Mike Fink speaks with The Los Angeles Times about his work as visual effects supervisor for The Golden Compass. The Oscar-nominated supervisor especially regards the time constraints and other challenges…

…award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association annual film awards. The blogsite also talks briefly about the serious competition Ratatouille may face at Annie and Oscar awards, next year….

…mark the return of the animated musical with songs composed by seventeen-time Oscar nominee Randy Newman. The animated fairytale is currently scheduled for a US release on December 18th, 2009….

…Season 5 collection of this… unique series. Last day to enter is February 8th. • The Annual Oscar Contest – The lucky winner will receive a Disney DVD bundle worth…

…co-director of the animated feature of the same name. The interview elaborates, among other things, on the films’ Oscar-nomination, its upcoming English translation as well as Satrapi’s life as an…

Variety reports that Oscar nominated animated film Persepolis has finally been shown in public in Tehran. Based on Marjane Satrapi’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis had angered Iranian authorities for its…

Culver City-based vfx shop Rhythm & Hues, which won the 2008 best visual effects Oscar for The Golden Compass, has opened a facility in Hyderabad, India. Variety reports that the…

…in the 1982 war with Lebanon. Last year, Sony Pictures Classics was the domestic distributor of Persepolis, about the Iranian revolution, which was nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar….

AP offers an interesting profile 74-year-old Caroll Spinney who has been playing both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch in Sesame Street for nearly four decades now….